This title brings together a variety of papers presented at the 9th annual Meso meeting in 2007. The topics selected for Meso 2007 are designed to illustrate the relation of thresholds to multiscaling:
- Flow through capillary tubes in contrast to pipes
- Laminar and turbulent flow transition
- Heat convection of thin wires in contrast to cylinders
- Electrical conductance of macro- and nano-circuits
- Rubbery and glassy polymers
- Single- and poly-crystal behavior
- Strength of wires and round cylindrical bars
- Uni-axial and multi-axial material: linear and non-linear response
- Thin and thick plate behavior
- Brittle and ductile fracture
- Small and large crack growth behavior
- Low and high temperature effects
- Local and global material property characteristics
- Small and large bodies: size and time effects
- Specimen and structure
